XP laptop slow accessing mapped drives

[Aorta]

Hi all any help with this would be much appreciated.

New XP pro laptops need to access shared folders on an NT4 server.
They get their DNS settings from a Win2k server via DHCP and WINS is also
setup on the network all from the Win2000 server in a seperate domain.
Laptops are part of the NT4 domain (built on through My computer properties)
Users don't logon to the domain when they start as they don't need the
restrictive policies set up for other machines as they are single user
laptops.
I can browse the network quickly but when I try and map the drives it takes
ages (minutes) if you try and inturrupt it it wipes out XP although you can
logoff via the task manager options. When I log back on the drive is there
but can take ages to browse it although once it is browsed it then connects
very quickly.
The XP laptops from last year had problems with this but de-selecting search
the network in the folder view fixed it. This year no dice. Has microsoft
hard wires this process?
I have tried the printers and scheduled tasks registry fix and putting in
the credetials differently for the drives or for the server but still no
dice.

Any help much appreciated

Phil Bagge
Network Manager
Abbotswood School

[Miha Pihler]

Hi,

I would guess that problem is in NetBIOS. NetBIOS is primary protocol in
WindowsNT 4.0 and TCP is secondary. Primary protocol in WindowsXP is TCP and
it doesn't have NetBIOS installed by default. So NetBIOS has to timeout on
NT first before it switches to TCP and starts talking to WindowsXP.

What you can try and do is enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP under TCP/IP settings
(right click My Network Places -> Properties -> Right click on Local Area
Connection -> Properties -> Select TCP/IP -> Properties -> Advanced -> Wins
Tab -> Enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP).

You can also install NetBIOS protocol on WindowsXP
[url]http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;301041[/url]

I hope this solves your problem.

--
Mike
MCSA 2K, MCSE 2K, MCT, ...

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> Hi all any help with this would be much appreciated.
>
> New XP pro laptops need to access shared folders on an NT4 server.
> They get their DNS settings from a Win2k server via DHCP and WINS is also
> setup on the network all from the Win2000 server in a seperate domain.
> Laptops are part of the NT4 domain (built on through My computer

properties)

> Users don't logon to the domain when they start as they don't need the
> restrictive policies set up for other machines as they are single user
> laptops.
> I can browse the network quickly but when I try and map the drives it

takes

> ages (minutes) if you try and inturrupt it it wipes out XP although you

can

> logoff via the task manager options. When I log back on the drive is there
> but can take ages to browse it although once it is browsed it then

connects

> very quickly.
> The XP laptops from last year had problems with this but de-selecting

search

> the network in the folder view fixed it. This year no dice. Has microsoft
> hard wires this process?
> I have tried the printers and scheduled tasks registry fix and putting in
> the credetials differently for the drives or for the server but still no
> dice.
>
> Any help much appreciated
>
> Phil Bagge
> Network Manager
> Abbotswood School
>
>